52 Facts About Piers Corbyn

Piers Richard Corbyn was born on 10 March 1947 and is a British weather forecaster, anti-vaccine activist, conspiracy theorist, and former politician.

Piers Corbyn was awarded a first class BSc degree in physics from Imperial College London in 1968 and a postgraduate MSc in astrophysics from Queen Mary College, University of London, in 1981.

Piers Corbyn was a member of the Labour Party and served as a councillor in the London Borough of Southwark from 1986 to 1990.

Piers Corbyn is the elder brother of former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, leaving Labour in 2003 due to his opposition to the Iraq War.

Piers Corbyn ran a weather monitoring company called WeatherAction in the 1990s and gained some prominence in the media for his predictions and, later more so, for his rejection of the scientific consensus on climate change.

Piers Corbyn described SARS-CoV-2 as a "hoax", frequently campaigned against lockdowns and against COVID-19 vaccines, and described COVID-19 vaccines as dangerous.

Piers Corbyn was arrested on several occasions for taking part in protests against public health laws, and on suspicion of encouraging people to burn down the offices of members of Parliament.

Piers Corbyn was born on 10 March 1947 in Chippenham, Wiltshire.

Piers Corbyn grew up at Yew Tree Manor in Pave Lane, in Newport, Shropshire, a 17th-century country house which was once part of the Duke of Sutherland's Lilleshall estate.

Piers Corbyn began recording weather and climate patterns in 1962 at the age of fifteen, constructing his own observation equipment.

Piers Corbyn commenced postgraduate research there into superconductivity, but then went into student representation and politics for some years.

In 1969, Piers Corbyn became the first president of the Imperial College Students' Union to be directly elected by the student body.

Piers Corbyn set up a short-lived Imperial College Representative Council, seats on which were distributed between members of the college on the basis of their numbers, a system that almost gave students a majority.

Piers Corbyn was a housing and squatters' rights activist in the north Paddington area of the City of Westminster in the mid-1970s.

Piers Corbyn later moved from that rehousing in Rust Square to the Alvey Estate in Southwark where he became a leader of the tenants association.

Piers Corbyn was elected as a Labour councillor for Burgess Ward of the Southwark London Borough Council in 1986 but lost in 1990.

Piers Corbyn left the Labour Party in 2002 in the run up to the invasion of Iraq, and stood as an independent candidate in 2002 and in a 2015 council by-election.

In March 2016, Piers Corbyn was among a group of protesters at a Lambeth council meeting who reportedly "screamed abuse in the faces" of party councillors.

Piers Corbyn later told the BBC that he personally sought to make his points by talking to people, rather than shouting.

WeatherAction is the business through which Piers Corbyn sells his predictions.

Piers Corbyn has in the past bet on these predictions.

Piers Corbyn's betting attracted much interest in 1990, when his predictions of severe weather were met by a year of the "worst extremes".

Piers Corbyn reacquired the weather prediction business; the listed shell was taken over by investors and changed its name to 'InternetAction.

The only study involving Piers Corbyn's work published in a peer-reviewed journal was in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics.

Piers Corbyn's enlisted work was only for the most likely periods of the strongest winds and specifically not a full forecast to include lesser winds:.

In January 2021, it was announced that Piers Corbyn would stand for his own party, Let London Live, in the 2021 London mayoral election and 2021 London Assembly election.

Piers Corbyn stood for Let London Live in the 2022 Southwark London Borough Council election.

Piers Corbyn stood as a candidate in the 2023 Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election for Let London Live; Corbyn finished 11th of 17 candidates, receiving 101 votes.

In 2020, Piers Corbyn was reported by Hope not Hate and the Community Security Trust to have attended a meeting organised by Keep Talking, a conspiracy theory discussion group based in the United Kingdom which invites guest speakers involved in Holocaust denial.

Piers Corbyn denies that humans play a role in climate change, and spreads false and discredited narratives about the issue.

Piers Corbyn has said that the media, Met Office and "corrupt scientists" are brainwashing the public as part of a Qatar-run conspiracy to keep oil prices high.

Piers Corbyn has stated his belief that the anthropogenic contribution to global warming is minimal, with any increase in temperature due to increased solar activity.

In March 2016, Piers Corbyn participated in a BBC climate change debate which resulted in several people complaining to the BBC for giving him airtime.

Piers Corbyn was interviewed by Dutch filmmaker Marijn Poels for his 2017 documentary feature film about climate, energy and agriculture, called The Uncertainty Has Settled.

Piers Corbyn has stated his belief that COVID-19 and the associated ongoing pandemic is a "hoax".

Piers Corbyn called the pandemic a "psychological operation to close down the economy in the interests of mega-corporations" on Good Morning Britain; Dr Hilary Jones described his views as spurious and "extremely dangerous" and hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid challenged him during the programme.

On 16 May 2020, Piers Corbyn was one of 19 people arrested for refusing to leave and failing to provide details whilst protesting against the UK's COVID-19 lockdown in Hyde Park, London.

Piers Corbyn appeared alongside conspiracy theorist David Icke and singer Chico Slimani.

Piers Corbyn expressed his opposition to masks and told protesters to "free your face".

Piers Corbyn was one of fourteen people who were arrested for breaching new laws on assembly during the pandemic.

Piers Corbyn said to the crowd "Bill Gates wants vaccinations to control you and to control women's fertility to reduce world population".

Piers Corbyn was due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 17 November 2020 for breaching coronavirus rules on 16 and 30 May 2020.

Piers Corbyn was due to stand trial on 23 October 2020, but late disclosure of police logbooks delayed the proceedings.

Piers Corbyn's barrister told the court that he was "specifically targeted" by the police.

Piers Corbyn initiated and conceptualised an anti-vaccination leaflet which was distributed in Barnet and other areas of North London in December 2020 and Southwark in January 2021 comparing the Covid vaccine campaign to the Holocaust.

Piers Corbyn said that he was "100 per cent" behind "those being purged from the Labour Party".

Piers Corbyn was present at an anti-vaxxer demonstration on 9 August outside Television Centre, London and outside the ITN building on Gray's Inn Road on 23 August 2021.

In September 2021, Piers Corbyn staged a protest outside the Old Bailey in London, on the day former Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens was being sentenced for the murder of Sarah Everard.

Piers Corbyn said the fact that Couzens showed Everard his police warrant card and claimed to be arresting her for breaches of the UK's lockdown regulations in order to kidnap her was evidence that coronavirus laws were "not about controlling a virus" but instead "about controlling the public".

Piers Corbyn attended another large demonstration against the UK government's proposed COVID restrictions on 18 December 2021 in Parliament Square.

Piers Corbyn had urged the crowd "to hammer to death those scum, those scum who have decided to go ahead with introducing new fascism", as well as suggesting that the offices of MPs who had voted for the restrictions should be burned down.

Home Secretary Priti Patel responded to online footage of Piers Corbyn's speech, describing it as "sickening" and called for the police to take action against him.